OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN THE COURSE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH _FRANCE, ITALY, AND GERMANY._ On the tenth day of this month we arrived early at Naples, for I think it was about two o’clock in the morning; and sure the providence of God preserved us, for never was such weather seen by me since I came into the world; thunder, lightning, storm at sea, rain and wind, contending for mastery, and combining to extinguish the torches bought to light us the last stage: Vesuvius, vomiting fire, and pouring torrents of red hot lava down its sides, was the only object visible; and _that_ we saw plainly in the afternoon thirty miles off, where I asked a Franciscan friar, If it was the famous volca…
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